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Published  Monthly  by  Miami  University 

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Series  VI. 


OCTOBER,  1907. 


Number  6 


PREEACE. 

It  is  the  attempt  of  this  Bulletin  to  provide  an  accurate  repro- 
duction of  the  first  catalogue  of  Miami  University,  issued  in  July, 
1 826,  after  the  University  had  been  in  actual  operation  for  almost 
two  years.  Such  an  attempt  appropriately  opens  a sort  of  “cam- 
paign of  education’’  preparatory  to  the  celebration  in  June,  1909,  of 
the  Centennial  Anniversary  of  the  founding  of  what  was  then  styled 
“ The  Miami  University.’’  Despite  our  conventional  boast  regard- 
ing Miami’s  historical  associations,  the  experience  of  the  Centennial 
Committee  suggests  that  most  of  the  friends  of  the  old  institution  have 
decidedly  vague  notions  of  her  history.  Witness  the  familiar  ques- 
tion: “ We  had  a seventy-fifth  anniversary  in  1 899;  how  can  we 
be  a hundred  years  old  in  1909?  *'  To  set  such  doubts  at  rest,  it 
may  be  well  to  prefix  a few  statements  of  fact  to  the  reprinted 
catalogue. 

The  Miami  University  was  formally  instituted  by  the  General 
Assembly  of  Ohio  in  an  act  passed  February  17,  1809.  The 
wording  of  section  1 is  memorable: 

Sec.  1 . Be  it  enacted  by  the  Qeneral  Assembly  of  the  State 
of  Ohio , That  there  shall  be  an  university  established  and  instituted, 
in  the  manner  hereafter  directed,  within  that  part  of  the  country 
known  by  the  name  of  John  Cleves  Symmes’  purchase,  which  uni- 
versity shall  be  designated  by  the  name  and  style  of  the  Miami  Uni- 
versity, for  the  instruction  of  youth  in  all  the  various  branches  of  the 
liberal  arts  and  sciences,  for  the  promotion  of  good  education,  vir- 
tue, religion,  and  morality,  and  for  conferring  all  the  literary  honors 
granted  in  similar  institutions;  and  the  benefits  and  advantages  of  the 
said  University  shall  be  open  to  all  the  citizens  within  this  state. 


This  same  act  provided  for  a commission  to  select  a permanent 
site  for  the  University,  and  appointed  the  following  fourteeen  original 
trustees: 

Hiram  M.  Currey  and  Wm.  Ward,  of  Champaign  Co. 

James  Brown  and  David  H.  Morris,  of  Miami  Co. 

Wm.  McClure  and  Benj.  Van  Cleve,  of  Montgomery  Co. 

Benj.  Whiteman  and  Andrew  Reed,  of  Greene  Co. 

John  Bigger  and  Ichabod  B.  Halsey,  of  Warren  Co. 

John  Reily  and  Thomas  Irwin,  of  Butler  Co. 

John  Riddle  and  Joseph  Vanhorn,  of  Hamilton  Co. 

The  first  regular  meeting  of  this  Board  was  held  June  7,  1 809, 
at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  which  seems  to  have  been  the  location  preferred 
by  the  commission  for  the  University.  The  next  February,  however, 
the  General  Assembly  took  the  matter  of  location  into  its  own  hands, 
and  established  Miami  at  the  town  of  Oxford,  which  was  to  be  laid 
off  in  the  township  of  land  previously  set  apart  for  the  endowment  of 
the  University. 

Progress  was  slow  and  disheartening  during  the  next  ten  years. 
The  trustees  met  from  time  to  time,  often  without  a quorum  to  trans- 
act business.  Provision  was  made  for  the  survey  and  disposition  of 
lands,  and  for  the  collection  of  fees,  but  years  had  to  elapse  before 
there  was  a fund  sufficient  to  justify  opening  a college.  A “ mission- 
ary " was  sent  into  the  east  to  solicit  contributions  to  the  new  enter- 
prise, but  secured  little  except  some  consignments  of  books,  many  of 
them  unsuited  for  a college  library. 

Building  was  begun  as  soon  as  possible.  From  February  1 3, 
1811,  dates  an  ordinance  of  the  trustees  munificently  providing  for 
the  erection  of  “ a school  house  for  the  use  of  the  Miami  University 
out  of  the  funds  of  the  same  University,  the  amount  thereof  not  to  ex- 
ceed one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars."  In  the  spring  of  1815  work 
was  begun  on  a much  larger  scale,  so  that  the  journal  of  the  trustees 
for  June  23,  1 8 1 8,  records  with  no  little  pride  the  completion  of  a 
University  building,  at  the  cost  of  $61  67.00.  At  this  meeting  the 
trustees  also  provided  for  the  first  regular  instruction  given  under  the 
direction  of  the  University — a Grammar  School,  to  be  taught  by  the 
Reverend  James  Hughes,  beginning  the  first  Tuesday  of  the  next 
November. 


In  1 820,  contracts  were  let  for  a pretentious  three-story  addi- 
tion to  the  first  building,  adjoining  it  on  the  east,  and  corresponding 
to  the  square  central  portion  of  the  present  main  building.  This  was 
to  be  completed  by  October  1 , 1 822,  at  which  time  the  buildings  of 
the  University  consisted  of  this  three-story  structure,  with  its  west 
wing,  and  of  a “ mansion-house**  used  for  residence  purposes. 

By  1 824,  the  funds  of  the  University  were  deemed  sufficient 
to  support  a college,  and  the  Board  resolved  to  begin  college  activi- 
ties the  first  Monday  of  November,  with  a faculty  consisting  of  a 
president  and  one  tutor  to  assist  him.  Robert  H.  Bishop  was  elected 
President,  and  William  Sparrow  tutor.  Upon  due  consideration, 
this  faculty  was  increased  before  November  by  the  election  of  John 
E.  Annan  as  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Natural  Philosophy.  In 
March,  1825,  Mr.  Sparrow  was  made  Professor  of  Languages,  and 
a year  later  was  succeeded  in  that  chair  by  William  H.  McGuffey. 

Miami  opened  in  November,  1 824,  according  to  program,  and 
the  little  faculty  of  three  assumed  responsibility  over  twenty  students, 
whose  names  will  be  noted  later.  It  will  be  seen  by  the  catalogue 
that  there  were  then  two  terms  to  the  year — one  from  the  first  of 
November  to  the  last  of  March,  and  the  other  from  the  first  of  May 
to  the  last  of  September.  The  University  must  have  fairly  leaped 
into  favor,  for  before  the  end  of  the  first  year  the  roll  of  students  had 
grown  to  68,  and  the  spring  term  of  the  second  year  saw  an  attend- 
ance of  1 1 1 , as  recorded  in  the  first  catalogue. 

Much  of  the  history  of  Miami  University  remains  to  be  written; 
some  of  it  never  can  be.  The  facts  regarding  the  various  steps  in 
the  progress  and  the  names  of  those  who  directed  its  career  are  of 
course  accessible  in  the  records  of  Trustees  and  Faculty.  But  the 
actual  life  of  those  early  days,  the  legendary  fabric  of  student  experi- 
ence, is  fast  vanishing  from  our  possession  and  cannot  be  recalled. 
The  oldest  of  the  aulmni  and  former  students  are  constantly  dropping 
from  the  ranks.  Hence  it  is  especially  desirable  that  there  be  col- 
lected and  put  in  permanent  form,  in  connection  with  this  approaching 
Centennial,  as  much  as  possible  of  reminiscence  and  tradition  looking 
toward  a vital  history  of  Miami  University.  This  Bulletin  may  be  re- 
garded as  the  first  call  to  alumni  and  friends  for  such  information, 


which  may  be  sent  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Centennial  Committee, 
and  will  be  filed  and  accredited  as  received.  Some  of  it,  if  possible, 
will  be  published  before  the  celebration  in  the  Miami  Student  or  the 
University  Bulletins,  and  all  of  it  will  be  used  as  data  for  the  Cen- 
tennial History  of  the  University, 

As  a feature  of  the  Centennial,  the  Committee  contemplates  the 
preparation  of  a Historical  Museum  of  Miami  University,  to  include 
both  loan  exhibits  and  those  which  may  become  permanent  property 
of  the  University.  Those  in  possession  of  documents,  relics  or  an- 
tiquities of  any  sort  connected  with  Miami’s  history,  or  those  who 
know  of  the  existence  of  such  material,  are  urged  to  communicate 
promptly  with  the  Committee.  The  exhibits  will  be  faithfully  cared 
for  while  in  the  Committee’s  possession. 

The  Centennial  Celebration  itself  promises  to  be  the  largest  and 
most  significant  event  in  the  history  of  the  Miami  Valley.  The  exer- 
cises will  extend  through  the  regular  Commencement  Week  of  Miami 
University  in  June,  1909,  and  will  bring  together  all  the  distinguished 
living  alumni  and  former  students  *of  Miami,  as  well  as  many  of  the 
leading  educators  of  America.  As  the  crowds  will  doubtless  far  ex- 
ceed Oxford’s  accommodation  facilities,  a comfortable  temporary 
camp  is  in  contemplation,  where  the  young  people  of  south-western 
Ohio  may  enjoy  an  outing  in  connection  with  the  privileges  of  the 
various  programs.  Educational  gatherings,  athletic  contests,  and  the 
like,  will  be  arranged  at  the  close  of  the  preceding  week,  to  justify 
the  longer  stay  that  camping  may  involve.  A vigorous  campaign  of 
advertising  will  be  instituted  next  Commencement,  to  continue  through- 
out the  year;  but  in  the  meantime  the  active  interest  of  all  friends  of 
Miami  is  solicited  for  the  historical  features  of  the  undertaking,  and 
suggestions  of  every  sort  are  welcome. 

A.  H.  UPHAM, 

Oxford,  Ohio. 

Chairman  Centennial  Committee. 


CATALOGUE 


OF  THE 


OFFICERS  AND  STUDENTS 


OF  THE 


MIAMI  UNIVERSITY 


OXFORD*  OBXO 


JULY,  1826. 


HAMILTON,  (O.) 

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BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 


REV. 


HON, 

REV. 


REV. 

COL. 

REV. 

REV. 

REV. 

REV. 


JOHN  THOMPSON,  ) 

LUKE  FOSTER,  ESQ.  > Hamilton  county. 

STEPHEN  WOODS,  ESQ.  ) 

JOSHUA  COLLETT,  ) Warren  county 
WTLLIAM  GRAY,  \ Warren  county. 

HENRY  BACON,  ESQ.  ) Montaomeru  county 
STEPHEN  FALES,  ESQ.  \ M0nt90mery  county . 

WILLIAM  GRAHAM — Chillicothe . 

SAMPSON  MASON,  ESQ.— Clarke  county. 

JOHN  JOHNSTON, — Miami  county. 

JAMES  COOLEY,  ESQ. — Champaign  county. 
DAVID  PURVIANCE, 

ALEXANDER  PORTER, 

STEPHEN  GARD, 

DAVID  M’DILL, 

JOHN  RILEY,  ESQ. 

DAVID  HIGGINS,  ESQ. 

JAMES  M’BRIDE,  ESQ. 

JOEL  COLLINS,  Secretary  of  Board  of  Trustees. 
JAMES  M.  DORSEY,  Treasurer . 


Preble  county. 


Butler  county. 


FACULTY  AND  INSTRUCTORS. 

REV.  R.  H.  BISHOP,  D.  D.  President , Professor  of 
Logic , Moral  Philosophy  and  History  and  Ex-officio 
Chairman  of  Board  of  Trustees. 

JOHN  E.  ANNAN,  (of  Dickinson  College,)  Professor  of 
Mathematics , Geography , Natural  Philosophy  and 
Astronomy,  and  Teacher  of  Political  Economy. 

Wm.  H.  M’GUFFFY,  (of  Washington  College,)  Profes- 
sor of  Latin,  Greek  and  Hebrew  and  Ex-officio  Li- 
brarian. 

JOHN  P.  WILLISTON,  (of  Yale  College,)  Principal  of 
the  Grammar  School. 


SAMUEL  W.  PARKER,  1 

THOMAS  ARMSTRONG,  ! rpTTrrm>  v 

JAMES  REYNOLDS,  i(/im 

JOHN  S.  WEAVER,  J 

JOHN  W.  CALDWELL,  Sec’y  of  the  Faculty. 


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EXTRACT  FROM  THE  BYE  LAWS. 

1st.  There  shall  be  a stated  meeting  of  the  Faculty 
on  the  last  Saturday  of  every  month  at  10  o’clock  A.  M. 

2d.  At  this  meeting  a return  shall  be  made  by  every 
instructor  of  all  the  absences  and  deficiencies  which  may 
have  occurred  in  his  department  during  the  month,  and 
these  returns  shall  be  put  upon  file  and  preserved  until 
the  end  of  the  session. 

3d.  The  Faculty  shall  also  at  each  of  these  monthly 
meetings  enter  into  a full  and  free  conversation  on  the  con- 
duct & progress  of  the  students  generally  & if  any  student, 
all  circumstances  being  taken  into  view, shall  be  found  not 
making  the  progress  which  he  might  do,  or  not  conduct- 
ing himself  wi  oh  that  order  and  sobriety  which  are  becom- 
ing,information  of  his  situation  shall  be  immediately  com- 
municated to  his  parents  that  he  may  be  removed. 

4th.  No  student  shall  be  allowed  to  recite  with  any 
class,  who  does  not,  within  ten  days  after  he  may  have 
made  application  to  be  admitted  into  that  class, lodge  with 
the  President  a certificate  from  the  instructor, stating  that 
his  previous  acquirements  are  such  as  to  entitle  him  to  a 
regular  standing  in  said  class. 

5th.  No  individual  shall  be  allowed,  on  any  account 
whatever,  to  continue  connected  with  any  department, 
who  is  not  in  the  opinion  of  the  Faculty  fully  employed. 
Nor  shall  any  individual  be  permitted  to  omit  reciting 
with  any  class  to  which  he  may  be  attached,  but  by  a 
vote  of  the  Faculty  at  their  stated  monthly  meeting. 


RESIDENT  GRADUATE. 

1 Thomas  E.  Hughes,  of  Jefferson  College,  Pennsylvania. 
SENIORS . 


1 Samuel  C.  Baldridge, 

2 William  M.  Corry, 

3 Daniel  L.  Gray, 

4 James  P.  Pressly, 

6  Ebenezer  Pressly, 

6 James  Reynolds, 

7 James  Thompson, 

8 John  Thompson, 

9 John  P.  Vandyke, 

10  John  L.  Weaver, 


Adams  county,  Ohio . 
Hamilton  do  do 

Abbeville,  S.  Carolina . 
do  do  do 

do  do  do 

Preble  county,  Ohio. 
Hamilton  do  do 

do  do  do 

Warren  do  do 

do  do  do 


11  James  Worth  : 

12  Ebenezer,Woodruff, 


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Warren  county , Ohio. 
Hamilton  do  do 


JUNIOR  S. 


1 

James  H.  Bacon, 

Montgomery  county, 0. 

2 

John  W.  Caldwell, 

Warren 

do 

do 

3. 

G.  R.  Gassaway, 

Hamilton 

do 

do 

4 

Thomas  A.  Jones, 

do 

do 

do 

5 

John  M’Mehan, 

Butler 

do 

do 

6 

Robert  C.  Schenck, 

Warren 

do 

do 

7 

Joseph  S.  Wallace, 

do 

do 

do 

SOPHOMORES. 


1 

Thomas  Armstrong, 

Butler  county, 

Ohio. 

2 

George  Bishop, 

do 

do 

do 

3 

Bernard  Brewster, 

Jefferson 

do 

la. 

4 

Godwin  V.  Dorsey, 

Butler 

do 

Ohio. 

5 

Henry  P.  Galloway, 

Green 

do 

do 

6 

John  M.  Garrigus, 

Park 

do  Indiana. 

7 

Samuel  W.  Parker 

Butler 

do 

Ohio. 

8 

Joseph  H.  Reily 

do 

do 

do 

9 

James  Simpson, 

Preble 

do 

do 

10  Hugh  B.  Wilson 

Butler 

do 

do 

11  Taylor  Webster, 

Butler 

do 

do 

12  William  Burch, 

Fleming 

do 

Ky. 

FRESHMAN. 


1 

William  Boyce, 

Preble  county , 

Ohio. 

2 

Courtland  Cushing, 

Warren 

do 

do 

3 

Ebenezer  Elliott. 

Preble 

do 

do 

4 

William  F.  Ferguson, 

Franklin 

do 

la. 

5 

James  N.  Gamble, 

Green 

do 

Ohio. 

6 

John  Hunt, 

Jefferson 

do 

Ia. 

7 

George  W.  Jones, 

Hamilton 

do 

Ohio. 

8 

Ralph  P.  Lowe, 

Warren 

do 

do 

9 

William  C.  Lyle, 

Bourben 

do 

Ky. 

10  John  M’Dill, 

Preble 

do 

Ohio. 

11  James  Reily, 

Butler 

do 

do 

12 

William  B.  Russell, 

Adams 

do 

do 

13  John  Vanausdall, 

Preble 

do 

do 

14  Nathaniel  Weed 

15  Elias  Williams, 

16  Ira  Root, 


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Preble  county,  Ohio . 
Butler  do  do 

Hamilton  do  do 


ENGLISH  SCIENTIFIC  DEPARTMENT. 
THIRD  CLASS. 


1 

William  Bishop, 

Butler  county. 

Ohio. 

2 

Samuel  Fleming, 

do 

do 

do 

3 

Robert  G.  Linn, 

Warren 

do 

do 

4 

William  Porter, 

Butler 

do 

do 

5 

Ezekiel  Walker, 

Hamilton 

do 

do 

SECOND  CLASS. 

1 

Freeman  Alger, 

Butler  county, 

Ohio. 

2 

Charles  Barnes, 

Hamilton 

do 

do 

3 

John  H.  Boyce, 

Preble 

do 

do 

4 

Robert  C.  Caldwell, 

Warren 

do 

do 

5 

Edward  F.  Chittenden, 

Butler 

“ 

ki 

6 

John  Harrison, 

Warren 

, i 

i. 

7 

Wm.  Hueston, 

Butler 

u 

a 

8 

Algernon  S.  Foster, 

Hamilton 

u 

it 

9 

Thoma*  I.  Foster, 

u 

it 

10  Cyrus  Falconer, 

Butler 

u 

it 

11  Caleb  B.  Smith, 

Hamilton 

u 

a 

12  Abner  Longly, 

Butler 

it 

a 

13  Hugh  Webster, 

u 

u 

FIRST  CLASS. 

1 

Robert  Blair, 

Butler  county. 

Ohio. 

2 

Joseph  Blair, 

it 

it 

a 

3 

Clement  Brown, 

Hamilton 

u 

u 

4 

Jonathan  Harshman, 

Montgomery 

ti 

5 

Samuel  M’Cleane, 

Hamilton 

ti 

ti 

6 

Thomas  Pursell, 

Dearborn 

44  Indiana . 

7 

Alvah  White, 

Butler 

u 

Ohio. 

GRAMMAR  SCHOOL. 

SENIOR  CLASS. 


1 Robert  Bishop, 

2 David  H.  Bruen, 

3 Robert  P.  Brown, 

4 Isaac  N.  Gard, 


Butler  county , Ohio. 
Montgomery  county,  O. 

do  do  do 

Butler  county,  Ohio. 


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5 Win.  Gregg, 

6 James  Killough, 

7 Wm.  M’Queston, 

8 Adam  M’Creary, 

9 James  Porter, 

10  Wm.  Pressly, 

11  Isaac  P Schenck, 

12  Roger  N.  Stemble, 

13  Wm.  Woodruff, 


Jefferson  county , la, 
Preble  county , Ohio. 


do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

Abbeville , S.  Carolina , 
Warren  county , O/m?. 
Montgomery  do  do. 
Butler  44  44 


SECOND  CL  A SS. 


1 Ebenezer  Bishop, 

2 Wm.  Cochrane, 

3 Wm.  Horner, 

4 James  Irwin, 

5 Isaac  H.  Jennings, 

6 George  W.  Kidd, 

7 Thomas  H.  Lynch, 

8 Felix  Marsh, 

9 Daniel  S.  Major, 

10  Milton  M’Clean, 

11  James  Mount, 

12  Jesse  Murrell, 

13  John  S.  Patterson, 

14  John  Rhea, 

15  John  B.  W.  Weller, 


Butler  county , Ohio. 

it 
tt 
tt 

Warren 
Butler 
Warren 
Preble 
Dearborn 
Franklin 
Franklin 
Butler 
Hamilton 
Butler 

tt 


tt  .t 

tt  tt 

tt  tt 

tt  t» 

tt  tt 

tt  tt 

th  tt 

44  Indiana. 
44  Ohio. 

44  Indiana. 
44  Ohio . 

tt  tt 

tt  tt 

tt  tt 


FIRST  CLASS. 


1 James  Anderson, 

2 John  Coffeen, 

3 Adam  Deam, 

4 Wm.  Greer, 

5 George  H.  Hastings, 

6 Reuben  Jacobi, 

7 George  Keever, 

8 David  G.  Leigh, 

9 James  M’Mannas, 

10  Theodore  Woodruff, 


Delaware  county , Ohio . 
Warren  “ 

Butler  u “ 

tt  tt  ik 

tt  tt  tt 


tt  tt  tt 

Warren  4 4 44 

Butler  4 4 4 4 

Union  44  Indiana . 

Butler  44  Ohio. 


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SUMMARY 


College  Proper 48 

English  Scientific  Department  25 

Grammar  School 38 


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Those  whose  names  are  in  the  above  catalogue  are  na- 
tives of  fourteen  different  states.  The  youngest  is  in  his 
seventh  and  the  oldest  in  his  thirty-third  year.  The 
great  body  are  however  natives  of  Ohio,  and  betwixt  the 
ages  of  fourteen  and  twenty-one. 

At  the  close  of  the  last  session  six  had  their  names  re- 
turned to  their  parents  as  not  having  made  that  improve- 
ment which  would  justify  any  further  trouble  or  expense 
in  endeavoring  to  give  them  a liberal  education,  and 
fourteen  of  the  good  and  promising  students  of  that  ses- 
sion have  been  prevented  by  the  circumstances  of  their 
lot  from  prosecuting  their  studies  in  this  session.  One  of 
the  present  session  has  been  sent  home  as  not  promising. 

Add  these  twenty-one  to  the  one  hundred  and  eleven 
given  above  and  you  have  one  hundred  and  thirty-two, 
as  the  sum  total  of  toe  present  year. 


The  College  year  is  divided  into  two  sessions  of  five 
months  each.  The  winter  session  commences  on  the  first 
Monday  of  November,  and  ends  on  the  last  Wednesday 
of  March.  The  summer  session  commences  on  the  first 
Monday  of  May,  and  ends  on  the  last  Wednesday  of  Sep- 
tember. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  meets  statedly  at  the  end  of 
each  session. 


COURSE  OF  STUDY. 

1.  Grammar  School. 

The  studies  of  the  Grammar  School,  preparatory  to  ad- 
mission into  the  Freshmen  Class,  are  English,  Latin,  and 
Greek  Grammar,  Mair’s  Introduction  to  the  making  of 
Latin,  Caesar’s  Commentaries,  Cicero’s  select  orations, 
Virgil’s  iEneid,  Greek  Testament,  Collectanea  Minora, 
and  Arithmetic,  including  vulgar  and  decimal  fractious, 
and  the  extraction  of  roots. 


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II.  The  Freshmen  Class. 

FIRST  SESSION. 

Algebra,  Sallust,  six  books  of  Homer’s  Iliad,  Grseea 
Majora  begun,  Adam’s  Roman  Antiquities  begun,  Mod- 
ern Geography,  Prosody  revised,  English  Grammar  re- 
vised, translations  from  Greek  and  Latin  into  English, 
Declamation  and  Bible  recitations. 


SECOND  SESSION. 

Euclid’s  elements,  Horace’s  Odes  and  Satires,  Greeca 
Majora  continued,  Roman  Antiquities  finished,  Ancient 
Geography,  Moreil’s  Rome,  Neilson’s  Greek  exercises, 
Double  translations,  Declamation  and  Bible  recitations. 


Ill,  The  Sophomore  Class  Study. 

FIRST  SESSION. 

(Cambridge  Mathematics)  Plane  Trigonometry,  Log- 
arithms, Mensuration,  Surveying,  Horace’s  Epistles, 
Greeca  Majora  continued,  Double  translations,  Morell’s 
Greece,  Declamation  and  Bible  recitations. 


SECOND  SESSION. 

(Cambridge  Mathematics,)  Spherical  Trigonometry, 
Navigation,  Dialling,  Excerpta  Latina  begun,  First  vol- 
ume of  Majora  finished.  Double  translations,  Declama- 
tion and  Bible  recitations. 


IV.  The  Junior  Class  Study. 

FIRST  SESSION. 

Conic  Sections,  Fluxion’s,  Physical  and  Political  Geog- 
raphy with  the  use  of  the  globes,  Excerpta  Latina  finish- 
ed, Second  volume  of  Majora  begun,  Ty tier’s  Elements 
of  History  begun,  Composition,  Declamation  and  Bible 
recitations. 


SECOND  SESSION. 

Natural  and  Experimental  Philosophy,  Virgil’s  Geor- 
gies, Horace  de  Arte  Poetica,  Grseca  Majora  continued, 
Translation  from  Greek  into  Latin  and  from  Latin  into 
Greek,  Tytler’s  Elements  finished,  Hebrew  Grammar, 
Jamison’s  Grammar  of  Rhetoric,  Composition,  Declama- 
tion and  Bible  recitations. 


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V.  The  Senior  Class  Stndy. 

FIRST  SESSION. 

Moral  Philosophy  including  the  Philosophy  of  the 
mind,  Astronomy,  Chemistry,  Grseca  Majora  finished, 
Cicero  de  Oratore,  Latin  and  Greek  compositions,  Hebrew 
Bible  begun,  Declamation  and  Bible  recitations. 


SECOND  SESSION. 

Logic,  Say’s  Political  Economy,  Cicero  de  Officiis  et  de 
Natura  Decorum,  Select  portions  of  Graeca  Majora  re- 
vised, Hebrew  Bible  continued,  Evidences  of  Divine 
Revelation,  Declamation  and  Bible  recitations. 


VI.  English  Scientific  Department. 

The  studies  of  the  English  Scientific  Department  are 
substantially  the  same  with  the  studies  of  the  College 
Classes,  with  the  exception  of  the  Latin  and  Greek  lan- 
guages. No  person  can  be  admitted  into  this  depart- 
ment who  is  under  sixteen  years  of  age;  and  to  profit  by 
admission,  arrangements  ought  to  be  made  so  that  each 
student  may  continue  two  years  at  least.  It  is  intended 
to  have  some  of  the  modern  languages  taught  in  this 
department,  and  to  give  regular  diplomas  to  those  who 
may  study  the  whole  course. 


Miscellaneous  Notices. 

A small  but  well  selected  Philosophical  and  Chemical 
apparatus  has  been  imported  from  London.  Additional 
articles  will  be  procured  as  the  state  of  the  institution 
may  demand;  a small  sum  is  also  permanently  appro- 
priated to  procure  regularly,  for  the  use  of  the  Faculty, 
a few  of  the  most  important  Literary  Journals  and  any 
new  work  which  may  be  of  more  than  ordinary  interest 
in  any  of  the  departments  of  science. 

The  first  commencement  will  be  on  the  last  Wednes- 
day of  September  next,  when  the  degree  of  A.  B.  will  be 
conferred  on  the  members  of  the  present  Senior  Class. 

With  the  commencement  of  the  third  year,  on  the  first 
Monday  of  November  next,  it  is  proposed  to  form  a reg- 
ular class  of  resident  Graduates.  The  studies  of  this 
class  will  embrace  a course  of  general  reading  adapted  to 
the  particular  profession,  to  which  the  members  may  be 


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individually  devoted  and  to  a review  of  any  of  their  for- 
mer studies  to  which  they  may  be  peculiarly  attached. 

No  degree  of  A.  M.  or  of  any  kind  will  in  any  case  be 
conferred  as  a mere  matter  of  course.  Particular  attain- 
ments and  a character  corresponding  to  these  attain- 
ments will  in  every  case  be  required. 


EXPENCES. 

Tuition  in  Grammar  School  and 
in  First  Class  E.  S.  Department, 


$5  per  Session. 

College  Proper  and  Second  and  Third  1 a,™,- 

Classes  E.  S.  Department,  } $1°  per  Session. 

Boarding  One  Dollar  per  week. 


To  those  parents  and  guardians  who  have  thus  far  en- 
couraged an  infant  institution,  those  who  have  the  more 
immediate  direction  of  its  concerns  tender  their  sincere 
and  grateful  acknowledgements;  and  trusting  in  the  con- 
tinued protection  of  a wise  and  good  Providence,  assur- 
ance is  hereby  given  that  every  possible  exertion  will  be 
made  to  make  the  MIAMI  UNIVERSITY,  in  all  its  de- 
partments a public  and  common  good. 


EXTRACT  FROM  MINUTES  OF 
FACULTY  MEETING. 


Miami  University  Nov.  1 3th,  1 824. 

The  faculty  met  for  the  first  time.  Members  present  Rev.  Robt. 
H.  Bishop,  John  E.  Annan,  and  William  Sparrow.  The  following 
students  were  reported  as  having  been  regularly  entered,  viz: 


IN  COLLEGE. 
JUNIOR  CLASS. 


1 

Daniel  Lewis  Gray, 

21 

years 

Abbeville,  S. 

c. 

2 

James  Pressley 

16 

do 

do  do 

3 

Ebenezer  Pressly 

16 

do 

do  do 

4 

John  T.  Vandyke 

21 

do 

Warren,  Ohio. 

SOPHOMORE  CLASS. 

5 

James  H.  Bacon 

13 

do 

Montgomery,  Ohio 

6 

John  W.  Caldwell 

16 

do 

Warren 

do 

7 

Robert  C.  Schenck 

15 

do 

do 

do 

FRESHMAN  CLASS. 

8 

George  Bishop 

14 

do 

Butler 

Ohio 

9 

Robert  C.  Caldwell 

14 

do 

Warren 

do 

1 0 Godwin  V.  Dorsey 

12 

do 

Butler 

do 

it 

John  M.  Garrigus 

17 

do 

do 

do 

1 2 Edward  Sparrow 

15 

do 

do 

do 

GRAMMAR  SCHOOL. 

FIRST  CLASS. 

i 

David  H.  Bruen 

13 

do 

Montgomery, 

Ohio 

2 

William  H.  Blodget 

10 

do 

do 

do 

3 

Isaac  N.  Gard 

13 

do 

Butler 

do 

4 

George  W.  Goble 

19 

do 

do 

do 

5 

George  W.  Smith 

15 

do 

Montgomery 

do 

6 

Isaac  P.  Schenck 

14 

do 

Warren 

do 

GRAMMAR  CLASS. 

7 Robt.  Bishop  10  do  Butler  Ohio 

8 Richard  M.  Ross  1 1 do  Warren  do 

ROLL  MAY  30th,  (1825) 


JUNIOR  CLASS. 

1 

Samuel  Baldridge 

24 

years 

Adams  County,  Ohio 

2 

Daniel  Lewis  Gray 

21 

do 

Abbeville,  S.  C. 

3 

Robert  G.  Linn 

22 

do 

Butler  County,  Ohio 

4 

James  Pressly 

16 

do 

Abbeville,  S.  C. 

5 

Ebenezer  Pressly 

16 

do 

do 

do 

6 

James  Stewart 

23 

do 

Richland  County,  Ohio 

7 

John  P.  Vandyke 

21 

do 

Warren 

do 

do 

8 

John  S.  Weaver 

22 

do 

Butler 

do 

do 

9 

James  Worth 

24 

do 

Preble 

do 

do 

1 0 William  Bishop 

19 

do 

Butler 

do 

do 

ii 

James  Reynolds 

19 

do 

Preble 

do 

do 

SOPHOMORE  CLASS. 


1 

James  H Bacon 

13 

do 

Montgomery  Co. 

Ohio 

2 

John  W.  Caldwell 

16 

do 

Warren 

do 

do 

3 

Richard  Disney 

14 

do 

Hamilton 

do 

do 

4 

Thomas  A.  Jones 

18 

do 

do 

do 

do 

5 

Robert  C.  Schenck 

15 

do 

Warren 

do 

do 

6 

John  McMahen 

15 

do 

Butler 

do 

do 

FRESHMAN  CLASS. 


i 

John  Alexander 

15 

do 

Green 

County, 

Ohio 

2 

George  Bishop 

14 

do 

Butler 

do 

do 

3 

Bernard  Brewster 

26 

do 

Jefferson,  Indiana 

4 

Robert  C.  Caldwell 

14 

do 

Warren  County, 

Ohio 

5 

Godwin  V.  Dorsy 

12 

do 

Butler 

do 

do 

6 

John  M.  Garrigus 

17 

do 

Butler 

do 

do 

7 

Edward  Lytle 

16 

do 

Hamilton  do 

do 

8 

Theodore  Smith 

16 

do 

Montgomery  do 

do 

9 

Samuel  W.  Parker 

19 

do 

Butler 

do 

do 

10  Taylor  Webster 

23 

do 

do 

do 

do 

ADDITIONS. 


June  1 4th. 

George  W.  Jones, 

age 

17 

Hamilton  County,  Ohio. 

Norman  Squire 

do 

20 

Preble 

do 

do 

J.  P.  Hagget 

do 

21 

Butler 

do 

do 

William  Boice 

do 

18 

Preble 

do 

do 

Nathaniel  Weed 

do 

17 

do 

do 

do 

July  1 4th. 

Joseph  Pierce 

do 

15 

Hamilton  do 

do 

Alexander  Hoffman  do 

21 

Rush  County, 

Indiana. 

August  1 . 

Ebenezer  N.  Elliot 

do 

21 

Preble 

County, 

Ohio. 

14. 

Andrew  B.  Combs 

do 

20 

Butler 

do 

do 

Sept.  1 . 

James  Killough 

do 

25 

Preble 

do 

do 

